Donald Trump Picks Senator Jeff Sessions For Attorney General

Sessions, who endorsed Trump early in his campaign, was considered too racist to be a judge in the 1980s. But apparently, that wasn't a deal breaker for the president-elect.

In 1986, when Sessions was a US prosecutor in Alabama, President Ronald Reagan nominated him for federal judgeship. His nomination was ultimately rejected after former colleagues testified that Sessions used the n-word, and also once joked he thought the KKK was "OK, until he learned they smoked marijuana."

So, it looks like the US will go from having its first black female attorney general to having a white male whose political career was almost derailed over accusations of racial bias.